“Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG!”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from The Oathbound
“She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she would or would not go.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from The Oathbound
“And the nightmare-monster of her childhood revealed itself to be a thing of old clothes stuffed with straw.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from The Oathbound
“You are not the only female hire-swords I have dealt with,” he replied. “Many of my trade allies have them as personal retainers. It has often seemed to me that many of those I met have had to be twice as skilled as their male counterparts to receive half the credit.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from The Oathbound
“Kethry had once described summoning as being “like balancing on a rooftree while screaming an epic poem in a foreign language at the top of your lungs.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from The Oathbound
Mercedes Lackey
Born place: in Chicago, Illinois, The United States
Born date June 24, 1950
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“Hatred is like fire. It burns the one who harnesses it. It’s also extremely hard to see more helpful truths through its flames.”
― Morgan Rhodes, quote from Gathering Darkness
“Where a boy runs he never forgets.”
― Bernard Malamud, quote from The Assistant
“- ¿Tú crees que soy una bruja, Kai?
- Yo creo que tú eres Dana. Y no me importa lo demás”
― Laura Gallego García, quote from The Valley of the Wolves
“WHERE ONCE THE WATERS ON YOUR FACE
Where once the waters of your face
Spun to my screws, your dry ghost blows,
The dead turns up its eye;
Where once the mermen through your ice
Pushed up their hair, the dry wind steers
Through salt and root and roe.
Where once your green knots sank their splice
Into the tided cord, there goes
The green unraveller,
His scissors oiled, his knife hung loose
To cut the channels at their source
And lay the wet fruits low.
Invisible, your clocking tides
Break on the lovebeds of the weeds;
The weed of love’s left dry;
There round about your stones the shades
Of children go who, from their voids,
Cry to the dolphined sea.
Dry as a tomb, your coloured lids
Shall not be latched while magic glides
Sage on the earth and sky;
There shall be corals in your beds,
There shall be serpents in your tides,
Till all our sea-faiths die.”
― Dylan Thomas, quote from Collected Poems
“... No, I think I just wanted to laugh at them and tell them at the end: it wasn't really serious.”
― Heinrich Böll, quote from Billiards at Half-Past Nine
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